My Annual List of Christmas Freebies

Signing up with your email to a couple of reputable companies is well worth the effort. The companies I’ve found that are reliable and provide coupons worth the risk are:

Farnam (free newsletter, lots of giveaway contests, coupons) On the website www.farnam.com they have a section called “Stable Talk” with educational articles, tips, videos. Some are fairly simple in nature and introduce new horse owners to typical equine issues.

Project Gutenburg is a site where you can download free books online. Find these titles and many, many more. These turned up with a very short search. Black Beauty, The Virginian, Horseman of the Plains; A Horse’s Tale by Mark Twain; On Horsemanship by Xenophon; Clever Hans; Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning; Lameness of the Horse; The ABC’s of Foxhunting; Diseases of the Horse’s Foot; Thoroughbreds; Horses of the Sahara; The Art of Horse-shoeing; An Old Coachman’s Chatter (Some Practical Remarks on Driving); New Method of Horsemanship (Baucher); Coaches and Coaching; The Horsewoman, a Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding; The Shire Horse in Peace and War; In The Saddle, a collection of poems on horseback riding; The Horse’s Mouth (Mayhew) and many, many more. Search terms “horse” “equine” “equestrian” etc. will turn up many classics and interesting older volumes. They are downloadable in several formats.

Shopping – briefly

Shopping online: visit Retailmenot.com and put “horse” in the search box, and scroll down – there are many coupons listed for all sorts of equine supply houses and online tack stores. When you order, always check Retailmenot before leaving that coupon code box blank!

How About Legal Forms?

Free legal forms including bills of sales, lease agreements, boarding agreements, trailer sales agreements, shipped semen agreement, etc. quite a few equine related legal documents live at this link. Great sample forms for your use or to check with your lawyer for use:

And the USDF also has a comprehensive state by state list of release forms! It’s at the very bottom of this page on their website – scroll to the bottom and click on the state you’re interested in:http://www.usdf.org/downloads/forms/index.asp

Are you in Pony Club or know someone who is? You need to visit this page: https://www.ponyclub.org/Members/Rulebooks.aspx it’s the rulebooks download portal for every rulebook in the various pony club activities. All are updated regularly.